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is produced by the National Library of Medicine, covering all aspects of biomedicine including nursing, dentistry and veterinary medicine.

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covers journal articles, book chapters, and books in psychology, as well as psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and more.
Partial funding provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
provides full text for more than 490 journals with coverage back to 1985.

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broad, multi-disciplinary database providing more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including newspapers, magazines, and peer-reviewed journals
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Taking Online Courses?

Are you taking classes online? You can still use library services and access library resources! Students who are enrolled in UW-Whitewater online degree programs are considered Distance Education (DE) students. Graduate students and faculty are also eligible for these services. These students are eligible for the same services as on-campus students, as well as others listed below.

Request that items owned by UW-W Libraries be sent to your home at no charge. How?

Sign in to Research@UWW (upper right of search page, or My Account link.)
Use the Request link in the item description, or use ILLiad (InterLibrary Loan).
Indicate in the Comments/Notes field of your request that you are a distance education student.
Provide your mailing address in the Comments/Notes field.
You are responsible for returning the item to UW-W at your cost. It is strongly encouraged to obtain a tracking number if you are mailing items back to the library and to ensure there is sufficient insurance should the package be lost or damaged during the shipping process

Request that items owned by other UW System Libraries be sent to your home at no charge.

Sign in to Research@UWW (upper right of search page, or My Account link.)
Use the UW Request link in the item description.
Indicate in the Comments/Notes field of your request that you are a distance education student.
Provide your mailing address in the Comments/Notes field.
You are responsible for returning the item to UW-W at your cost. It is strongly encouraged to obtain a tracking number if you are mailing items back to the library and to ensure there is sufficient insurance should the package be lost or damaged during the shipping process

Use your UW-W HawkCard to borrow items while visiting other UW System Libraries. Go to the library's website to see the policy for UW System in-person visits.

A DE or graduate student may also place a request for scanned journal articles or book chapters from items UW-W has in print using the Document Delivery service.
These will be delivered via UW-W email. Watch this video tutorial to see how to do this.

Articles:

Find the article in Research@UWW
Select the We Can Get it for You! (Document Delivery/ ILLiad) link
Log into ILLiad
Verify the info in the required boxes, plus fill in any additional information you know
Enter your Grad student or DE student status in the Notes field
Select the Submit Request button
To log out, click on Logoff link

Book chapter:

Have the title of the book, the title of the chapter, and the year the book was published handy
Go directly to the Illiad login
Select Article or Chapter under New Request
Fill in the required info, plus any additional information you know
Enter your Grad student or DE student status in the Notes field
Select the Submit Request button
To log out, click on Logoff link

Items will be made available online in about 2-4 weekdays
Your item received notification email will include download instructions
Print or save documents to your own files

Any questions or concerns about Document Delivery should be submitted to the ILL department at libill@uww.edu.

If you encounter problems accessing library resources, such as access to library databases or the full-text of articles, see our Troubleshooting guide or call the Reference Desk at 262-472-1032.